ThePhilips

ThePhilips

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Joined on Oct 5, 2010

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  • Commented on Olympus PEN E-P5 Review preview

    E-shutter is slow. It is said that it takes 1/10 of a second to retrieve image from the sensor. My observations are that GX7 is even slower, at around 1/7-1/8 of a second. That causes moving object...

  • Commented on Olympus PEN E-P5 Review preview

    Worth noting that Panasonic cameras also suffer from the shutter shock.

    I can easily reproduce it on my GX7 at 100-150mm FLs (that's 200-300mm eq).

    Sony NEX uses first curtain electronic shutter,...

  • Commented on Olympus PEN E-P5 Review preview

    @John, I have already tried the e-shutter. I like it for what it is but I do not like it being so poorly integrated with the rest of the camera. Panny should have made an option to use the...

  • Commented on Olympus PEN E-P5 Review preview

    "The issue is most prevalent at shutter speeds between 1/80th and 1/250th of a second, and most obviously visible when using short telephoto lenses [...]"

    Wow. That's a biggie. No, that genormous...

  • Observation. In all photos where the stripes are present, their number is the same. It is around 7 dark and 7 light stripes. If every light stripe is the sign of the current change, 7 stripes = 7Hz...
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  • Well, I have also shot at 1/100, 1/200 and 1/400. Now that I look close, the 1/100 shots are almost stripe-free. But 1/200 and 1/400 are as bad as the 1/160 I have posted.
  • Pretty cool.

    Actually, the more interesting research would be have been in the other directions: what optical distortions can be correct well in the software? Some uniform resolution sacrifice is...

  • No. The one from promotion looks like this one: DMW-CGK12 http://shop.panasonic.de/DMW-CGK12/DMW-CGK12E-K,de_DE,pd.html Which appears to be made for a m43 camera with kit 14-42 lens mounted. The...
  • I went into a camera shop and got myself Cullmann Toronto Vario 100. GX7+20mm fits inside perfectly. But I doubt the case is available outside Germany. I think more important is the "how" I bought...
  • Just looked it up, those are the halogen bulbs. Tried to search the interwebs, but there are no mentions of a problem caused by them for photography. :(
  • Replied in halogen bulbs
    Actually, those are the halogen bulbs (just looked it up). They have a cone-like shape and there are 3 of them. This is the strongest - and the last incandescent - light source in my house. The...
  • I have just repeated the test and I think I found the problem with my previous test. All images takes with the e-shutter display something like vertical banding: lighter stripe, darker stripe,...
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  • Not a tester myself - would be interested in the results too. Neither I have a decent test subject nor yet I have setup a RAW toolchain for the GX7. (Try to learn shooting JPEG only.) Read once...
  • Nice "slice of life" shots. Thanks for posting.
  • Replied in Autumn walk
    Love the autumn! What was the lens? The close-ups look tasty!
  • (Con) It is relatively small. I expected it to be larger. (Minor Con) One can see artifacts when moving eyes too fast around. (Pro) Color reproduction is good. (Pro) No visual artifacts in very...
  • In the mean time, you can easily address the problem by "upgrading" to a better browser: for example FireFox or Chrome. On my Win7 PC I keep Chrome and Opera browsers installed, as back up for my...
  • Thanks for the write-up. I'm sad to see that the lens is affected to the degree. At least you do not get the double images I experienced with the legacy Oly 40-150mm lens. I'm not sure why the lens...
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